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The Politics in Translation project was developed by SRAS with a dual purpose.

Politics in Transition is an attempt to revive an understanding of modern Russian politics through the histories and translated documents of modern Russian political parties and movements. It is, to some extent, an extension of our Politics in Russia page, where these works have also been listed, and which serves to provide and extensive overview of Russia's political scene with links to material and sites with more information. Both projects hope that, in providing free, up-to-date, and extensive material for understanding Russian politics, students will be better equipped in their studies and that this enhanced education will someday result in better US policy towards Russia as these students move into professional diplomatic careers.

Politics in Translation is also practical extension of SRAS's translation programs: Translate Abroad Internships and The SRAS Home and Abroad Program. In an increasingly global and information-heavy world, there is increasing need for the accuracy and readability that only human translation can deliver, despite advances in electronic translation technology. Yet there are not enough skilled translators to fill the demand that government, business, and the arts are creating. Politics in Translation provides one source of challenging, pertinent texts for our student translators to build their skills with and, hopefully, help create a more diplomatically sound, economically successful, and a more literarily solid future.

Other translations provided have come from other sources and were formatted to side-by-side translation format by SRAS. All materials currently available are listed below. This project is overseen by Josh Wilson, Assistant Director, SRAS.